On my way from the Country of the Senecas, whither in my Letter of the 24*1^ June (N" 9) I informed your Lordship I was then destined, I had the honour to receive your Lordship's of the 13^1' May (N" 10) and I herewith inclose a seperate Letter on the Issue of my Journey and proceedings, humbly requesting that your Lordship will so far indulge me as to allow the Subject of this to be a farther Explanation of the Transactions at the Fort Stanwix Treaty which from what I have heard seems necessary for the Justification of my Conduct, I even persuade myself that under these Circumstances Your Lordship will rather approve than condemn me for endeavoring (as every Man of Honour and Integrity ought^ to remove any the least misinformation on that head and to set the whole in as clear a light as the bounds of a Letter will admit of; and I have some hopes that in so doing your Lordship will be still farther enabled to judge of the propriety of future measures respecting the Objects of that Treaty ; and tho' I may be obliged in some places to Extract the substance of former Letters, yet I hope the placing the whole in one View will attone for it.

In order to this, permit me to remind your Lordship, That in former Letters I shewed that between the first mention of a Bonn dary Line (which was soon heard of throughout the Colonies) and my receiving orders for concluding it, so much time had elapsed as gave our Enemys opportunity to misrepresent our Intentions to the Indians, so that after procuring and Transporting a large valuable present to the place appointed for the Congress I found the Indians' sentiments so much altered as to render the success of my negociations very doubtfull.